Spirited Away

Kidnapped; allured. Kidnappers who beguiled orphans,
apprentices, and others on board ship in order to sell them to planters
in Barbadoes and Virginia, were called “spirits.” Mr. Doyle (English
in America, p. 512) finds the word used in this sense in official
papers as early an 1657. (Notes and Queries, 17th December,
1892.)